<p>This week on <strong>Ship It Weekly</strong>, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability story, and sometimes part of your budget problem too.</p><p>We start with the n8n security issue. A lot of teams use n8n as glue for ops workflows, which means it tends to collect credentials and touch real systems. When something like this drops, the right move is to treat it like production-adjacent infra: patch fast, restrict exposure, and assume anything stored in the tool is high value.</p><p>Next is AWS quietly raising prices on EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. Even if you’re not a GPU-heavy shop, it’s a useful signal: scarce compute behaves like a market. If you do rely on scheduled GPU capacity, it’s time to revisit forecasts and make sure your FinOps tripwires catch rate changes before the end-of-month surprise.</p><p>Third is Netflix’s write-up on using Temporal for reliable cloud operations. The best takeaway is not “go adopt Temporal tomorrow.” It’s the pattern: long-running operational workflows should be resumable, observable, and safe to retry. If your critical ops are still bash scripts and brittle pipelines, you’re one transient failure away from a very dumb day.</p><p>In the lightning round: Kubernetes Dashboard getting archived and the “ops dependencies die” reality check, Docker pushing hardened images as a safer baseline and Pipedash.</p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>SRE Weekly issue 504 (source roundup) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-504/">https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-504/</a></p><p>n8n CVE (NVD) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21858">https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21858</a></p><p>n8n community advisory <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://community.n8n.io/t/security-advisory-security-vulnerability-in-n8n-versions-1-65-1-120-4/247305">https://community.n8n.io/t/security-advisory-security-vulnerability-in-n8n-versions-1-65-1-120-4/247305</a></p><p>AWS price increase coverage (The Register) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/">https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/</a></p><p>Netflix: Temporal powering reliable cloud operations <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://netflixtechblog.com/how-temporal-powers-reliable-cloud-operations-at-netflix-73c69ccb5953">https://netflixtechblog.com/how-temporal-powers-reliable-cloud-operations-at-netflix-73c69ccb5953</a></p><p>Kubernetes SIG-UI thread (Dashboard archiving) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-ui/c/vpYIRDMysek/m/wd2iedUKDwAJ">https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-ui/c/vpYIRDMysek/m/wd2iedUKDwAJ</a></p><p>Kubernetes Dashboard repo (archived) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard">https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard</a></p><p>Pipedash <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/hcavarsan/pipedash">https://github.com/hcavarsan/pipedash</a></p><p>Docker Hardened Images <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/">https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/</a></p><p>More episodes and more details on this episode can be found on our website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shipitweekly.fm">https://shipitweekly.fm</a></p>